NCT02018770

Effect of Phototherapy in Individuals With Temporomandibular Disorder.

Effect of Phototherapy on Pain, Muscles Activity and Joint Mobility in Individuals With Temporomandibular Disorder: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled and Double-Blind Clinical Trial.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Nove de Julho · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The present study aims to evaluate the effect of phototherapy with the combination of different sources of light on pain, activity of temporal and masseter muscles, bilateral and joint mobility in subjects with TMD. It will be made a randomized, placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trial. Individuals participate with myogenic temporomandibular disorder, being allocated into 4 groups randomly and stratified by the method of sealed envelopes. The results will be evaluated using: RDC/TMD, digital caliper, electromyography, and visual analog scale and algometry. The protocols will be used in a single session and will be evaluated in four different moments. The variables that will be investigated are pain, muscle activity and joint mobility. The analyses of the data will be performed by adopting a significance level of 5%.

Conditions

• Temporomandibular Disorder.

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
RADIATION	Phototherapy	Portable Cluster 9 PainAway ® diodes manufactured by Multi Radiance Medical ® (Solon, OH-USA), being 1 905 nm diode (1 mW average power 10 W of peak power, spot of 0.44 cm2), 875 nm diodes 4 (17.5 mW average power for each diode, spot of 1 cm2) and 670 nm diodes 4 (15 mW average power for each diode1 spot, cm2), frequency of 1000 Hz, irradiation time of 300 seconds, energy delivered from 39.3 Joules.
RADIATION	Placebo phototherapy	The volunteers will be subjected to the same Groups ' intervention and placebo pen Phototherapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-09-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2013-12-23
• Last updated: 2014-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil